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Newly released Club Kid killer Michael Alig should lay low instead of spinning the gruesome details of how he murdered and dismembered a drug-dealing pal nearly 20 years ago, a friend said Monday.

Alig, freed from prison last week after 17 years, blamed his out-of-control heroin use for a drug dealer’s murder, which he detailed in Monday’s Post.

“It seems counterintuitive to stir the pot and rehash the murder again,” said James St. James, a Hollywood-based author and production manager, who was a member of Alig’s clique, which ruled the Manhattan club scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

“All that does is serve to make the haters hate more.”

Alig, now 48, the self-proclaimed “King of the Club Kids” killed drug-dealer friend, Andre “Angel” Melendez, 25, in March 1996.

“Blaming drugs for what he did? There’s plenty of people who take plenty of drugs who don’t end up dismembering their friend,” said Frank Owen, who chronicled the nightlife scene in the book, “Club­land: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture.”